I liked the premise, the beginning, and parts of the story overall. The problem is that we have Maggie Stark as the protagonist, who has been shown to be someone who could be Tony Stark(her brother)‘s equal or near equal. THEN she also has the super soldier serumn like Steve or Bucky, with all the training HYDRA could provide, such as the Red Room like Natasha. Why is that bad? It isn’t. Until her presence in the MCU does basically nothing to change how the story goes. Major events stay basically the same, except some have an extra person in it- such as when going into the past to get the infinity stones, she joins Steve, stands there while he gets the scepter, rushes off to help with the cube, gets slapped by past-Hulk, rushes back to see Steve basically defeat past-Steve, knocks out past-Steve, and then has to go with Steve and Tony to the past. WHERE she follows Tony to get the cube, and nothing changes… except she’s in the scene. Her role in this story amounts to basic emotional support to the Avengers and Bucky. Of course that’s downplaying it a bit to make summarization easier, but still… she’s by no means fulfilling the role cut out for her. She doesn’t even do the snap instead of Tony, so all I can think of her being there is to give Bucky a happy ending, and help Pepper raise Morgan. Of course, a lot of that is just expectations vs reality. It’s just disappointing there. Overall a good novel though.
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